[Though Konoha flinches a little in the face of the anger in his voice, the dismissal she hears there... Konoha stands her ground. It isn't like she hasn't heard similar, and worse, before. She'd grown up in an era where humans kept jinba as slaves. She's met people who spoke to her as if she were an animal.
It may have made her strong, striving to smile through hardship. But it hadn't made her into someone who couldn't be hurt by such things.]
... I don't believe that.
[She couldn't. Didn't want to believe in a world where the spirits that had passed didn't still exist. Didn't want to think that the parents that had brought her into this world only to succumb to its cruelty didn't get to see that at least she had managed to find a little happiness.
Didn't want to believe that Matthias was just... gone.
But she also knows that her words... How could they make someone else believe? She doesn't know this man well enough to reliably reach him... and so her gaze drops again, demurs in anticipation of defeat.]
... But thank you, for honoring your word to him even though he's not here any longer.
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It may have made her strong, striving to smile through hardship. But it hadn't made her into someone who couldn't be hurt by such things.]
... I don't believe that.
[She couldn't. Didn't want to believe in a world where the spirits that had passed didn't still exist. Didn't want to think that the parents that had brought her into this world only to succumb to its cruelty didn't get to see that at least she had managed to find a little happiness.
Didn't want to believe that Matthias was just... gone.
But she also knows that her words... How could they make someone else believe? She doesn't know this man well enough to reliably reach him... and so her gaze drops again, demurs in anticipation of defeat.]
... But thank you, for honoring your word to him even though he's not here any longer.